Latin Root Word “Mal” Explained
In my ASVAB prep course, I remind my students of the importance of studying Latin and Greek roots.
The Latin root “mal” means bad. As an ASVAB tutor, I remind students that knowing even one root could open one’s eyes to several words. In addition to working to help students with their ASVAB math scores, I work to improve their ASVAB word knowledge scores through the review of vocabulary words, prefixes, roots, and suffixes.
Knowing the root “mal” helps someone to know a number of words including: malicious, malignant, malevolent, malcontent, malfeasance, malediction, malign, malady, and maladjusted. Even if you do not know the word, you would know that a word with the root “mal” means something bad.
